You can't properly compare AMD and intel in a fair way. AMD just puts more cores into a CPU, has quadruple the power consumption for the same total speed (single core performance tends to be a bit better, but HT beats AMD's extra cores).
It also depends to which i5 you are comparing, 4th gen is latest, so you should compare to 4th gen (5th gen laptop isn't out yet :P).

Considering that you are comparing it to a intel i5 'U' series, is not good. The 'U' are for ultrabooks, they consume less power and are clocked at a lower rate, you should compare it to a i5-3320m or something, that'd be fair. The i5-3417U is clocked at 1.8gHz with a turbo to 2.8gHz so it can save power.

In terms of performance the Intel i5 that you compared it to will definitely beat that AMD chip due to Hyperthreading.